The Best of IceBridge Arctic 2013", "description": "The views from the cockpit of NASA's P-3B aircraft on an Operation IceBridge campaign are truly stunning. The mission doesn't travel to both ends of the Earth for the scenery of course — the airborne mission is there to collect radar, laser altimetry, and other data on the changing ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice of the Arctic and Antarctic. But for those of us who aren't polar pilots, here's a selection of some of the best footage from the forward and nadir cameras mounted to the aircraft taken during IceBridge's spring deployment over Greenland and the Arctic Ocean. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 11258, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11258/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-29T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Day 2013: Beautiful Earth", "description": "Connect with Goddard Space Flight Center on Earth Day, April 22nd at 12:00PM Eastern for a musical and visual tour of Earth from space with interactive discussions through the Beautiful Earth program! Join NASA's Dr. Claire Parkinson, Project Scientist of the Aqua satellite mission, which measures a wide variety of Earth variables, including temperatures, clouds, vegetation cover, sea ice, and water vapor. Dr. Parkinson will discuss climate change and how NASA is studying our home planet. She will be joined by Director and Musician Kenji Williams, who will narrate the Bella Gaia multimedia show, and discuss why art and music are important in science. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 11247, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11247/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-11T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Flying Low over Southeast Greenland", "description": "Few of us ever get to see Greenland's glaciers from 500 meters above the ice. But in this video — recorded on April 9, 2013 in southeast Greenland using a cockpit camera installed and operated by the National Suborbital Education and Research Center, or NSERC — we see what Operation IceBridge's pilots see as they fly NASA's P-3B airborne laboratory low over the Arctic. Following a glacier's sometimes winding flow line gives IceBridge researchers a perspective on the ice not possible from satellites which pass in straight lines overhead. By gathering such data, IceBridge is helping to build a continuous record of change in the polar regions. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 11227, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11227/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-03-20T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge: Wheels Down in Thule", "description": "NASA's Operation IceBridge begins another season of science over the Arctic with survey flights out of Greenland. For the next several weeks, IceBridge will carry out a research campaign — the result of months of planning and discussion — to study Arctic sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 4004, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4004/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-02-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "National Climate Assessment Annual Arctic Minimum Sea Ice Extents (1979-2012)", "description": "The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a central component of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). Every four years, the NCA is required to produce a report for Congress that integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of the USGCRP; analyzes the effects of global change on the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity; and analyzes current trends in global change, both human-induced and natural, and projects major trends for the subsequent 25 to 100 years. A draft of the Third National Climate Assessment report is available on the Federal Advisory Committee website. The final report is slated to be released in 2014. This scientific visualization of annual minimum sea ice area over the Arctic from 1979-2012 is one element of the NCA that highlights findings conveyed in the \"Our Changing Climate\", the \"Alaska and the Arctic\" and the \"Impacts of Climate Change on Tribal, Indigenous, and Native Lands and Resources\" chapters of the draft Third NCA report. This record shows a persistent decline in the minimum extent of Arctic sea ice cover. The satellite observations are from passive microwave sensors and processed using the NASA Team algorithm developed by scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The sensors that collected the data are the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the NASA Nimbus-7 satellite and a series of Special Sensor Microwave Imagers (SSM/I) and Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounders (SSMIS) on U.S. Department of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites. The data from the different sensors are carefully assembled to assure consistency throughout the 34 year record.This visualization is similar to another developed by NASA, but is based on a slightly different algorithm to process the same sensor data. Both show similar downward trends in minimum sea ice area coverage over this time period. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 11055, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11055/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-25T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA'S Operación IceBridge", "description": "For complete transcript in English, click here.For complete transcript in Spanish, click here. || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_youtube_hq.00402_print.jpg (1024x576) [101.1 KB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_youtube_hq_web.png (320x180) [277.1 KB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_youtube_hq_thm.png (80x40) [17.4 KB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [78.0 MB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_appletv.m4v (960x540) [72.0 MB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_prores.mov (1280x720) [2.4 GB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [90.6 MB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_720x480.webmhd.webm (960x540) [28.4 MB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol.mov (640x360) [67.1 MB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_720x480.wmv (720x480) [53.7 MB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [28.7 MB] || Operation_IceBridge_en_Espanol_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [15.3 MB] || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 10889, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10889/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-01-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Finds Russian Runoff Freshening Canadian Arctic", "description": "A new NASA and University of Washington study allays concerns that melting Arctic sea ice could be increasing the amount of freshwater in the Arctic enough to have an impact on the global \"ocean conveyor belt\" that redistributes heat around our planet. Read the full press release here: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20120104.html || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 10825, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10825/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-09-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Big Melt", "description": "Each year, as temperatures dip in the wintertime, new sea ice emerges from cold Arctic waters. By late summer, sea ice extent shrinks as warm ocean temperatures eat away at the ice. This shrink-and-swell rhythm is one of constant change. But in the 30 years since scientists began monitoring Arctic sea ice with satellites, a persistent trend has emerged: Less ice grows back in winter, more ice melts in summer. Year-to-year ups and downs still occur, but the long-term trend comes through clear in the satellite data, and correlates strongly with rising surface temperatures. The end result of this change remains unknown, as Arctic sea ice cover plays a dynamic role in regulating ocean currents, polar ecosystems and even the heat budget of the Earth. The extent of the oldest, thickest ice is now declining at more than 15 percent per decade. Arctic sea ice reached its second smallest extent on record in 2011, opening up the fabled Northwest Passage (shown with a red line). Watch in the visualization below how the Arctic sea ice cap changes throughout a season and now covers far less area than the 30-year average (shown in yellow). || ", "hits": 100 }, { "id": 10828, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10828/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-09-15T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic Sea Ice 2011 Minimum", "description": "Sea ice in the Arctic ocean declines from its near-maximum state in early spring 2011 through the summer and up until the summer minimum of Sept. 9, 2011, in this visualization of data collected by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite. Sea ice goes through this shrink-and-swell rhythm every year, but since consistent satellite observations began in 1979, both the annual minimum at the end of summer and the annual maximum at the end of winter continue to decline in area and thickness.Arctic sea ice extent on Sept. 9 was 4.33 million square kilometers (1.67 million square miles), placing 2011 as the second lowest minimum ice extent on record. Ice extent was 2.43 million square kilometers (938,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average.Below two versions of the AMSR-E visualization is a video featuring NASA Cryosphere Program Manager Tom Wagner, who shares his insights on the 2011 minimum. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 10695, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10695/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-06-17T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Oceanographic Voyage - ICESCAPE", "description": "The ICESCAPE mission, or \"Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment,\" is NASA's first dedicated oceanographic field campaign. From June-July 2010, scientists onboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy spent five weeks at sea studying how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. On June 25, 2011, researchers embark on the mission's second and final campaign. The multiyear observations collected from the icebreaker will help us interpret what instruments in space tell us, as well as turn up some new discoveries. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 10752, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10752/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-03-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "OIB Arctic 2011 45-second Package", "description": "Ice near the poles is changing. In spring 2011, the annual maximum extent of Arctic sea ice was among the lowest in the satellite record. Using satellites to track Arctic ice and comparing it with previous years is one way that scientists gauge the Arctic's health and the impacts of climate change. Now, NASA scientists are in the field for the most recent leg of Operation IceBridge, a six year mission to study the Earth's polar regions, not from satellites, but from onboard aircraft. Over the next eight weeks, researchers will fly over the Arctic aboard airborne science laboratories, tracking changes to ice cover and glaciers, and even performing some measurements not possible from space. For more information, go to www.nasa.gov/icebridge || ", "hits": 11 }, { "id": 10603, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10603/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic 2010 Video File - April 23, 2010", "description": "NASA's Operation IceBridge enters the second phase of the Arctic 2010 campaign in Greenland. Next week, NASA's DC-8 aircraft will return from Thule Air Base in Greenland to Dryden Flight Research Center in California. The fully equipped P-3B airplane will deploy from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland for the remainder of the mission. The mission is measuring the Arctic ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 10602, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10602/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Behind the Scenes with Operation IceBridge", "description": "Learn what a typical day is like with Operation IceBridge scientists, pilots and crew as they explore the polar ice sheets. This video includes exclusive footage of Arctic sea ice and Greenland glaciers. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 10597, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10597/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge's 2010 Arctic Campaign Takes Off: Reporters Package", "description": "NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicked off its second year of study in late March 2010. The IceBridge mission allows scientists to track changes in the extent and thickness of polar ice, which is important to understanding ice dynamics. IceBridge began in March 2009 as a means to fill the gap in polar observations between the loss of NASA's ICESat satellite and the launch of ICESat-2, planned for 1015. Annual missions fly over the Arctic in March and April and over the Antarctic in October and November. This video gives a brief overview of the start of the Arctic 2010 IceBridge campaign.For complete transcript, click here. || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_appletv.00127_print.jpg (1024x768) [113.3 KB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_appletv_web.png (320x240) [292.7 KB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_appletv_thm.png (80x40) [16.9 KB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_appletv_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.3 KB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [19.3 MB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_appletv.m4v (960x720) [44.5 MB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_ProResBroll.mov (1280x720) [1.3 GB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_YouTubeHQ.mov (1280x720) [43.6 MB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_goddard_shorts.m4v (640x360) [15.4 MB] || GSFC_20100406_OIB_m10597_Pkg2a.en_US.srt [1.8 KB] || GSFC_20100406_OIB_m10597_Pkg2a.en_US.vtt [1.8 KB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_NASA_PORTAL.wmv (346x260) [13.4 MB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_podcast.m4v (320x180) [6.2 MB] || G2010-028_OIB_Pkg2_SVS.mpg (512x288) [11.4 MB] || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 10596, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10596/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IceBridge 2010, a liveshot with Lora Koenig", "description": "Live interview with NASA Goddard cryospheric scientist Lora Koenig regarding Operation IceBridge and the 2010 Arctic sea ice maximum. || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010_SVS.00327_print.jpg (1024x576) [67.0 KB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010_SVS_web.png (320x180) [207.5 KB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010_SVS_thm.png (80x40) [16.1 KB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010.webmhd.webm (960x540) [56.4 MB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010.m4v (960x720) [138.4 MB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010.mov (1280x720) [4.1 GB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010_youtube_HQ.mov (1280x720) [115.0 MB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010_youtube.mov (1280x720) [53.3 MB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010_Goddard_Shorts.m4v (640x360) [42.0 MB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010_nasa_podcast.m4v (320x180) [17.6 MB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010_NASA_PORTAL.wmv (346x260) [36.3 MB] || Koenig_OIB_LS_2010_SVS.mpg (512x288) [36.0 MB] || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 3689, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3689/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-03-17T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge Greenland Spring 2010 Flight Paths", "description": "Operation Ice Bridge is a six-year campaign of annual flights to each of Earth's polar regions. The first flights in March and April carried researchers over Greenland and the Arctic Ocean. This spring's Artic campaign, led by principal investigator Seelye Martin of the University of Washington, will begin the first sustained airborne research effort of its kind over the continent. Data collected by researchers will help scientists bridge the gap between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) — which is operating the last of its three lasers — and ICESat-II, scheduled to launch in 2014.The Ice Bridge flights will help scientists maintain the record of changes to sea ice and ice sheets that have been collected since 2003 by ICESat. The flights will lack the continent-wide coverage that can be achieved by satellite, so researchers carefully select key target locations. But the flights will also turn up new information not possible from orbit, such as the shape of the terrain below the ice.Thirteen flights are scheduled and displayed in this visualization. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 3672, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3672/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "28 Year Arctic Temperature Trend", "description": "Scientists who study the Arctic region consider this area to be an early indicator of global warming, because changes in this area are amplified by the high albedo of the snow and ice. This animation depicts the 28-year surface temperature trend over the Arctic region determined from data collected between August 1981 and July 2009. The warming and cooling regions are shown in steps of .02 degrees Kelvin per year from the regions of greatest change to the areas of least change. Blue hues indicate cooling regions; red hues depict warming. The neutral region of -.02 to +.02 is shown in white. Light regions indicate less change while darker regions indicate more. The temperature scale used ranges from -0.42 to +0.42 degrees Kelvin, although the minimum data value is -0.1825 degrees Kelvin per year while the maximum value is 0.4185. || ", "hits": 110 }, { "id": 10427, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10427/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-04-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Noctilucent Clouds A capella Music Video", "description": "The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission will provide the first detailed exploration of Earth's unique and elusive noctilucent or night shining clouds that are found literally on the \"edge of space\". Located near the top of the Earth's mesosphere (the region just above the stratosphere), very little is known about how these polar mesospheric clouds form or why they vary. They are being seen at lower latitudes than ever before and have been growing brighter and more frequent, leading some scientists to suggest that this recent increase may be the direct result of human-induced climate change. The mission is led by Dr. James Russell of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Hampton University.Music by The Chromatics. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 10419, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10419/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-04-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "New Sea Ice Findings Cap Year of Focus on Poles", "description": "In commemoration of the end of the International Polar Year, Tom Wagner, NASA Cryosphere Program Scientist, appeared on television stations around the country on April 6, 2009. This video highlights his answers to questions about the IPY, climate change, and new data on the extent and thickness of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean.For complete transcript, click here. || Tom_Wagner_Live_EditedH264.00177_print.jpg (1024x576) [83.8 KB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_EditedH264_web.png (320x180) [241.0 KB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_EditedH264_thm.png (80x40) [17.0 KB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.webmhd.webm (960x540) [57.5 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.m4v (960x540) [178.9 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_EditedH264.mov (1280x720) [175.8 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.mov (1280x720) [175.8 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.mp4 (320x240) [11.7 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.wmv (320x236) [25.4 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.mpg (512x288) [46.1 MB] || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 10371, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10371/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Climate Change and Polar Ice: Are We Waking Sleeping Giants w/ Dr. Waleed Abdalati", "description": "Water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and largely governs so many things from climate change to the sustenance of life on earth. What you may not realize is the vital importance played by the solid part of our planet's water inventory. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 10353, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10353/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sea Ice 2008", "description": "Arctic sea ice declined this summer to its second smallest extent in the satellite era, suggesting that the record set in 2007 may not have been an anomaly. If recent trends in the melt rate continue, we could see a virtually ice-free Arctic each summer much sooner than previously thought.For complete transcript, click here. || SeaIce2008_320iPod.03621_print.jpg (1024x576) [95.6 KB] || SeaIce2008_320iPod_web.png (320x180) [129.4 KB] || SeaIce2008_320iPod_thm.png (80x40) [17.3 KB] || SeaIce2008_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [46.7 MB] || SeaIce2008_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [115.0 MB] || SeaIce2008_fullH264.mov (1280x720) [112.5 MB] || SeaIce2008_640iPod.m4v (640x360) [37.0 MB] || Sea_Ice_2008_640x360_Youtube.mov (640x480) [40.7 MB] || GSFC_20080925_SeaIce_m10353_2008.en_US.srt [6.0 KB] || GSFC_20080925_SeaIce_m10353_2008.en_US.vtt [5.7 KB] || SeaIce2008_320iPod.m4v (320x180) [16.6 MB] || SeaIce2008_podcast.mp4 (320x236) [14.7 MB] || SeaIce2008_512x288.mpg (512x288) [50.7 MB] || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 3373, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3373/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-09-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Zoom from Jakobshavn Glacier with AMSR-E Daily Sea Ice and MODIS Daily Snow Cover", "description": "Beginning from a view of Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier, this animation shows motion of sea ice and snow cover over the Arctic from 10/1/2002 through 6/23/2003 as the camera pulls out to frame the full globe. The false color of the sea ice is derived from the AMSR-E 6.25 km brightness temperature. The sea ice extent is defined by AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration, identifying all regions having a sea ice concentration of greater than 15%. Because AMSR-E is a passive microwave sensor that functions independently from atmospheric effects, this sensor is able to observe the entire polar region every day, even through clouds and snowfalls. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 3371, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3371/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-09-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Three-Year Average September Minimum Sea Ice Concentration 1979 - 2005", "description": "Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean. Some sea ice is permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. Because the extent of the sea ice is important both for the Arctic marine ecology and for the role it plays in the Earth's climate, understanding the variation of this extent during the year and from year-to-year is vital. Each year, the minimum sea ice extent in the northern hemisphere occurs at the end of summer, in September. By comparing the extent of the sea ice in September over many successive years, long term trends in the polar climate can be assessed. This animation shows the three-year moving average September mean sea ice concentration in the northern hemisphere from 1979-1981 through 2003-2005. Since 1999, this minimum has shown an ice extent that is consistently 10% to 15% smaller than the average extent over the past 20 years. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 3367, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3367/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-09-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic Monthly Average Sea Ice Climatology", "description": "Sea ice advances and retreats in concert with the seasons. Monthly sea ice climatology is created by averaging the sea ice for each month over a period of many years. This animation shows the monthly average sea ice climatology over the Arctic region derived from years 1979 through 2002. || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 2926, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2926/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-06-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic Yearly Minimum Sea Ice Concentration 1979-2003", "description": "This animation shows the yearly minimum sea ice concentration from September for each year from 1979 through 2003. The average sea ice extent from 1979-2002 is outlined in orange. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 2928, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2928/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-06-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic Mean Monthly Sea Ice Concentration", "description": "This animation shows the average monthly sea ice concentration climatology derived from years 1979 through 2002. The months are displayed from September through August. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 3036, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3036/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-01-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Daily Sea Ice Surface Temperature 2002-2003 (WMS)", "description": "This animation shows the daily sea ice surface temperature over the northern hemisphere from September 2002 through May 2003. The sea ice surface temperature was measured by the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite. Since this instrument cannot take measurements through clouds or in the dark, in dark or cloud-covered regions or areas with suspect data quality, the prior day's value is retained until a valid data reading is obtained. The color of the sea ice indicates the sea ice surface temperature. || ", "hits": 16 } ] }